Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Explanatory Note and Abbreviations Used IX
4. Contributors XI
5. Contents XIII
6. Introduction 1
7. Confucianism and Buddhism in the Late Ming 39
8. The Spiritual Autobiography of Te-ch’ing 67
9. Chu-hung and Lay Buddhism in the Late Min 93
10. Neo-Confucian Cultivation and the Seventeenth-Century “Enlightenment” 141
11. Orthodoxy and Enlightenment: Wang Shih-chen’s Theory of Poetry and Its Antecedent 217
12. Chiao Hung and the Revolt against Ch’eng-Chu Orthodoxy 271
13. Liu Tsung-chou’s Doctrine of Moral Mind and Practice and His Critique of Wang Yang-ming 305
14. From Education to Politics: The Fu She 333
15. Fang l-chih: Western Learning and the “Investigation of Things” 369
16. Wang Fu-chih and the Neo-Confucian Tradition 413
17. Reason, Substance, and Human Desires in Seventeenth-Century Neo-Confucianism 469
18. Yen Yüan: From Inner Experience to Lived Concreteness 511
19. The Hsing-li ching-i and the Ch’eng-Chu School of the Seventeenth Century 543
20. Index 581
21. Translations From The Oriental Classics 595